Quotes About Humanity

He who was the Son of God became the Son of man, that man ... might become the son of God.

Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

The murder of a man is still murder, even in wartime.

Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.

Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.

The greatest of men, they don't get too big to cry. They just loose faith in love and life.

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.

I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men

Man is not made better by being degraded.

To love God truly, one must first love man. And if anyone tells you that he loves God and does not love his fellow-man, you will know that he is lying.

No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.

We can land men on the moon, but, for all our mechanical and electronic wizardry, we cannot reproduce an artificial fore-finger that can feel as well as beckon.

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

God became man so that man might become a god.